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- From: jerry@mickey (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: HEIDI'S DECISION. Was: Oh My God, help my friend not buy an IBM
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:49:16 GMT
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- fabrizio lodi (lodi@ghost.dsi.unimi.it) wrote:
- :
- : Open the WorkBench screen in 4 colours. Then open another screen
- : in HAM (use Dpaint or an image viewer). Now drag one screen to the
- : half of the monitor. Now you have one screen on another. One with
- : 4 colour and one with 4096 colours. Open the WorkBench at 620x512 and
- : you also have a 4 colour hi-res screen and a 4096 colou low-res screen.
- : One on another. There isn't any computer capable of doing that.
- : Noone can because noone have the hardware for doing multiscreen.
- : Yes, you can simulate screens with no-bordered windows. But you can't
- : simulate the two-resulution-or-more-on-the-same-monitor!!!!
- :
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- My 1981 Atari 800 can do this; in fact, it can display all 10 (or so) of its
- resolutions on the same screen, including mixed text and graphics modes.
- Wasn't it the same guy who designed the custom chips for both machines?
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- :
- : Fabrizio Lodi
- :
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- Jerry J. Shekhel jerry@msi.com
- Spending a week in the UK!
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